Gmail Showing Ads Inside Email Messages List in Inbox, Here is How to Disable Them

Many Gmail users have reported that Google is showing new type of promotional ads inside the email messages list in their Inbox. If you are also getting these annoying Inbox ads and want to get rid of these advertisement emails, this article will help you.

Similar to Microsoft, Google has also started displaying Inbox ads to Gmail users. If you remember, we reported a similar news last year when Microsoft started showing promotional ads inside email messages list of Outlook.

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Now Google is doing a similar thing! The company has started rolling out new kind of promotional ads in Gmail Inbox. These ads look like a normal email containing email title, description and sender name.

Following screenshot shows a promotional Inbox ad displaying inside the email messages list in Gmail:

As you can see, the ad UI is quite similar to general email UI and it’s hard to distinguish between ad and a normal email. The promotional email contains an “Ad” tag to represent its type.

Many Gmail users may find the ads inside their Inbox irritating and problematic. Fortunately, Google has provided ways to disable or remove these ads from Gmail.

If you also want to remove these Inbox ads from your Gmail account, following steps will help you:

METHOD 1: Turn Off Smart Features and Personalization in Gmail

You can disable “Smart Features and Personalization” option in your Gmail account to get rid of all promotional emails, ads, categories and unwanted features at once. Once you disable smart features and personalization, it’ll turn off following features in your Gmail account:

• Unnecessary email filtering categories like Primary, Promotions, Social, Updates and Forums
• Smart Search, Smart Compose, Smart Reply suggestions features in emails
• High-priority notifications for important emails
• Summary cards above email (travel, package tracking, etc)
• Nudges to reply to forgotten emails
• Extracting event details to create calendar entries

You can disable smart features and personalization option using following steps:

1. Open your Gmail account and click on Settings icon (cog wheel icon) present at the top-right side on Gmail page.

2. It’ll open Quick Settings flyout or sidebar at the right-side pane. Click on “See all settings” button given at the top. It’ll open Gmail Settings page.

3. Now on General tab, scroll down and look for following option:

Uncheck or disable the option and Google will display a message box on screen telling you about the features which will be disabled or removed automatically if you turn off smart features and personalization option.

Click on Turn off features button. Google will ask to reload the page to apply the changes, click on Reload button.

That’s it. It’ll turn off all unnecessary smart features in your Gmail account along with extra unwanted promotions and advertisement emails.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore smart features in your Gmail account, you can again turn on Smart Features and Personalization option in Gmail Settings.

METHOD 2: Disable Categories and Promo Emails in Gmail

If you don’t want to turn off all smart features and personalization in your Gmail account but still want to get rid of Inbox ads, you can just disable all categories in your Gmail account and it’ll automatically remove Inbox ads from your Gmail account page.

1. Open your Gmail account and click on Settings icon (cog wheel icon) present at the top-right side on Gmail page.

2. It’ll open Quick Settings flyout or sidebar at the right-side pane. Click on “See all settings” button given at the top. It’ll open Gmail Settings page.

3. Now go to Inbox tab and you’ll see various categories enabled in your account.

If you want to keep email categories enabled but want to get rid of ads, uncheck the following option to disable Inbox ads:

We’ll suggest you to disable at least following email categories in your Gmail account:

• Promotions
• Social
• Updates

Once you disable categories, scroll down and click on “Save Changes” button.

It’ll reload your Inbox page and all email messages ads will disappear from your Gmail account page.

You can also quickly enable/disable email categories using Quick Settings flyout panel in your Gmail account.

What do you think about these new type of promotional email ads in Gmail? Feel free to share your opinion in comments section.

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